"There has been a litany of bad practice that had to be exposed, " he added.
Lord Browne said the sector needed stronger government regulation to prevent any bad practice.
Problems have been blamed by the industry on bad practice rather than bad principles.
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It is bad practice for the United States to enter into arms-control agreements that cannot be verified.
It was not accurate to conclude there was a widespread problem, but apparent that areas of bad practice did exist.
If the question is asking how to do something that is bad practice, mention that in your answer, but still actually give an answer.
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TFT's executive director, Scott Poynton, says his group fills a gap that the RSPO cannot do as it is free to criticise any bad practice.
The cross-party committee also hopes to find examples of good and bad practice among agencies dealing with the problem and recommend any changes it thinks are needed.
Bad practice plays some part notably a reluctance to breastfeed babies.
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Mr Kelly said it would be wrong for the Scottish government to "railroad the legislation through" and that it was "bad practice to be breaking up the consenus on such an important issue".
Labour sympathised with what the government was trying to do but disagreed with the way it proposed doing it - through fast-track legislation, which shadow home office minister Chris Bryant described as "bad practice".
These strains can be created by bad medical practice such as over-prescribing antibiotics or patients not taking the drugs long enough to get rid of the disease.
"We reject this type of bad police practice, " Commissioner Jose Humberto Ramirez said, saying that the police officials allegedly involved had been detained and would be investigated by prosecutors.
"It was a bad legacy practice that we don't do anymore, " says Dave Hudson, who in June took over as chief executive of the Nielsen unit that scraped PatientsLikeMe in May.
Another former U.K. rate-setter and arch-dove, David Blanchflower, has pointed out that even if nominal-GDP targeting was a good idea in theory, it is a bad idea in practice because nominal GDP is hard to measure and prone to large revisions.
In practice, bad habits and new forces at work on old rivalries mean tricky times ahead.
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Known as spinning, the practice smells bad but isn't illegal.
Labour MSP Charlie Gordon said these the plans were a bad set of ideas in practice as well as principle.
He talks about the NHS being a series of "microclimates" where good practice can exist alongside bad, making it harder to detect.
Practice is required to replace bad and unproductive habits, like too much multitasking, with desirable habits, like solving important challenges more often than the crisis of the moment.
The bills "supposedly address real needs, but in practice are means by which bad actors (with lots of money and lawyers) can take sites down, " Craig Newmark, founder of the online classified-ad site Craigslist, wrote in a blog post Monday.
The accepted practice in the drugs industry of not publishing bad test results has faced challenges of late.
But the deal was unfinished when George Bush decided to put an end to the practice of buying off North Korea's bad behaviour, since this seemed only to encourage more of it.
He says the practice not only costs too much, it was bad for the club's artistic health.
The practice was outlawed in 1995, after a previous bad bout of smog.
Many conservatives reacted by arguing that comparative effectiveness research is bad, because it is a pretext for government interference in clinical practice, and for price controls.
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They convinced the state medical boards of Canada and the U.S. that the doctors who were reported to them for malfeasance were really the victims of bad health care delivery systems, something that contradicted the Harvard Medical Practice Studies.
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The practice was banned by international treaty in 1988 because the plastic bad for sea life, from turtles on down the food chain.
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